Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, you wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend though. grin Rip6 Snip I'm using a Diamond SupraExpress 56e Pro on my installation with no problems if that helps you? Dunno if it's a multimedia tho'. Martin Barnard
Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
At 10:03 29/04/99 -0500, you wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend though. grin Rip6 .inf files aren't really drivers - try reading one. :) If you have links where you can set COM ports and interrupts, you should be OK. Although I had a Diamond modem that sortof worked - I put it down to faulty hardware. hih nick@nexnix Boon Kee Soh wrote: I have a Blaster Modem 28.8 and Merz 56K. Are they real modems? I am having problems dialing up to my ISP with all the "right" setting. If it's what is generically referred to as a "winmodem", then I'm afraid you are out of luck. Linux only supports "real" modems that don't require additional software drivers. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've never heard of Merz, so I can't tell you anything about it. If you modem(s) came with software drivers that you must load (Win 98 usually does this automatically for you) before it works, then you have "winmodems" and they're unsupported under Linux. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
Ripcrd6 [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them. .inf files are not drivers, they are text files with configuration information, e.g. modem init strings. Regards, Richard
Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
At 10:03 AM 4/29/99 -0500, you wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Don't know anything about these specific modems. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both In windows an inf file is an instruction file for how windows is supposed to deal with the device. A regular external modem which *is not* a winmodem will have an inf file if it comes with a windows device installation routine. (Usually to take advantage of some "specialness" or extend the command set past the standard AT commands.) have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on There are a couple of hardware configurations which get the generic name "winmodem". The first is a true winmodem where all the modem card has on it is a few tone converter chips and the entire modem functions are handled by a program which runs in the windows environment on the computer's main CPU. This is by far the slowest setup, and least likely to ever have any Linux support. The second is a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) based board which requires a piece of program code loaded into it to work. The DSP chip is really a highly specialized CPU chip. So it doesn't require anything from the computer other than the service of downloading it's instruction set. For some of these, if you boot windows so the instruction set gets loaded, then reboot and load Linux *without turning off the power* they will work. Others don't work because they reset on the reboot rather than on power loss. (I have no idea which models are which. Someone posted a great modem resource site some time back. Anyone still have it?) The second category, DSP processor which requires code loaded into it, is probably going to be the first group to get Linux support as Linux becomes more popular because all that must be written is a small program to shove the DSP instruction set into the card and a device driver to talk to the hardware's physical address. Conceivably it could be call from the rc scripts and the modem would work from then on. (As an aside, it's probably possible to reverse engineer some of the windows loader programs, strip the DSP code from it, and write a device driver and code loader program for Linux without support from the manufacturer. But it's probably a few hundred hours of work, and it's almost defiantly a copyright violation to redistribute the DSP code. The best bet would be for several hundred users to demand Linux support from the manufacturer.) the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? If it's really a "traditional" modem, then you're all set. In fact, if you can disable the PnP and manually set the IRQ you probably have a "traditional" modem rather than a dysfunctional one. MB -- Michael R. Batchelor Industrial Informatics Instrumentation, Inc.
Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
They are a little flaky. I had to change the interupt for COM 3 in the BIOS settings to allow them to detect it and COM 1 and 2 didn't work. I thought that the big problem was the old Packard Bell I was trying to shoehorn them into. I'm dragging that baby into current technology like an anchor. I let my wife use it for email. It is a little hard on hard drives though. And it has a proprietary CD-sound card hookup. Rip6 -Original Message- From: Nick Kay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 29, 1999 12:14 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem At 10:03 29/04/99 -0500, you wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend though. grin Rip6 .inf files aren't really drivers - try reading one. :) If you have links where you can set COM ports and interrupts, you should be OK. Although I had a Diamond modem that sortof worked - I put it down to faulty hardware. hih nick@nexnix Boon Kee Soh wrote: I have a Blaster Modem 28.8 and Merz 56K. Are they real modems? I am having problems dialing up to my ISP with all the "right" setting. If it's what is generically referred to as a "winmodem", then I'm afraid you are out of luck. Linux only supports "real" modems that don't require additional software drivers. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've never heard of Merz, so I can't tell you anything about it. If you modem(s) came with software drivers that you must load (Win 98 usually does this automatically for you) before it works, then you have "winmodems" and they're unsupported under Linux. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
Ripcrd6 wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend though. grin Rip6 Boon Kee Soh wrote: I have a Blaster Modem 28.8 and Merz 56K. Are they real modems? I am having problems dialing up to my ISP with all the "right" setting. If it's what is generically referred to as a "winmodem", then I'm afraid you are out of luck. Linux only supports "real" modems that don't require additional software drivers. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've never heard of Merz, so I can't tell you anything about it. If you modem(s) came with software drivers that you must load (Win 98 usually does this automatically for you) before it works, then you have "winmodems" and they're unsupported under Linux. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Either one should work fine if you can configure the IRQ and disable the PNP. good luck Terry
Re: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem
Ripcrd6 wrote: Does this mean that Diamond MM modems won't work? I have a 28.8 and a 56K. Both have software drivers (.inf files) that are loaded, but I think both have processors on them.I think I will just need to reset the jumpers on the modem to disable PnP and set the IRQ manually.Am I wrong here anyone? I'm reading everything before I install. I may just do it this weekend though. grin Rip6 Boon Kee Soh wrote: I have a Blaster Modem 28.8 and Merz 56K. Are they real modems? I am having problems dialing up to my ISP with all the "right" setting. If it's what is generically referred to as a "winmodem", then I'm afraid you are out of luck. Linux only supports "real" modems that don't require additional software drivers. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've never heard of Merz, so I can't tell you anything about it. If you modem(s) came with software drivers that you must load (Win 98 usually does this automatically for you) before it works, then you have "winmodems" and they're unsupported under Linux. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED] True (what I like to refer to as "real") modems are totally self contained and don't require any special software to operate. That's why they work with any OS;they don't need specific OS code. Winmodems are just a way for manufacturers to cut the price, by eliminating some of the hardware (and its related processing) So your main CPU does some of the work that a "real" modem can do by itself. -- Lloyd Osten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: [newbie] How to install my 56k modem based on PCI bus?
John l.yn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] said: Now, I meet a new question: How to install my inner modem of 56k based on PCI bus. I have installed the modem in win98, all thing is ok. But the product havent driver for linux. What driver shall I choose? Time to buy a new modem... See: http://www.kc.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html Regards, Richard
